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“tear (from the eye)” in Sgaw Karen

မဲာ်ထံ

mẹh htee

tear (from the eye)

Checked against written sources; not yet confirmed by a native speaker.

“tear (from the eye)” is written မဲာ်ထံ in Sgaw Karen, read in a rough way as mẹh htee. Knyaw helps you read and understand words, not say them out loud. Karen is a tone language, so the English-letter sounds are only a rough help.


This word in a story

ခးအးအတၢ်မုၢ်လၢ်ဟးဂီၤ ဟီၣ်အမဲာ်ထံလီၤနးနးကလဲာ် က့ၤကဒါက့ၤဆူအသွံဒၣ်၀ဲ
Kaage was very disappointed. Crying bitter tears, she returned to her nest.
from “The Generous Crow”
ဖျီးဖျီး ဒွဲာ်နၢ်ဟူကဆီထံအမဲာ်ထံလီီၤ အ၀ဲၤဒၣ်စးထီၣ်ဂဲကလံၢ်လဲၤ၀းတရံးကဆီထံအခီၣ်ထံး ဟီီာ်ဟီာ်
Plop! Plop! Grasshopper hears Hippo’s tears. He starts dancing around her feet. Hop! Hop!
from “Hippo Wants to Dance”

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